August 3, 2013 “We need to train our young people to think and speak in a way that respects other religions and their followers” is one of the key steps of the message that Pope Francis has addressed yesterday to Muslims around the world to mark the end of Ramadan. A very significant gesture, as…
July 21 On Saturday, approximately 1000 people demonstrated in Hamburg against “racist police profiling” and asked to stop police violence. Also, 300 demonstrators protested in the city of Offenbach for the same cause. A routine police check escalated in the Northern part of Hamburg, when police was confronted with rioting inhabitants. The police…
July 8, 2013 Comparing Ratzinger and Bergoglio would be wrong. Also unfair. These are two Popes who we respect and appreciate. However, it is hard not to notice the images and words, which also changed in the age of communication. Personally, I still think of the scene, broadcast on television around the world, of the…
March 20, 2013 Pope Francis wanted to give a strong signal to representatives of other faiths, “the Catholic Church is aware of the importance of the promotion of friendship and respect between men and women of different religious traditions” said the Pope. Francis greeted and thanked all those who belong to other religious traditions, “first…
11 February 2013 The president of the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain, Riay Tatary has expressed on Monday his respect and value for the resignation of Benedict XVI to the papacy due to his advanced age, as his role is one of “a lot of responsability”. During his declarations, Tatary has highlighted the attitude…
